Message from the General Manager: February 2026
As we start a new year, I’d like to introduce myself as the new General Manager of the Barton Springs-Edwards Aquifer Conservation District. Many of you know me from my long tenure as the (former) General Manager of the Hays Trinity Groundwater Conservation District in western Hays County; or if you’ve been in the area long enough, you may be riding one of the many thousands of bicycles my […]
How ‘Water Quality Protection Lands’ Safeguard Our Aquifer
Volunteers collecting seeds on a section of the Austin Water’s Water Quality Protection Lands | October 2025 People associate clean air and water with broad expanses of natural landscape for a reason. Clean water and air begin on clean land. Undisturbed, healthy landscapes provide many of the properties that we rely on for clean air […]